Note:

Quotas apply to this unit.

Content

This unit examines the photo-based image as a cultural, social and technical artefact. It examines representation in the digital and analogue realms. Production techniques include digital photography - both referent-based and non referent-based subjects, digital montage, conceptualisation, conceptual approaches and virtual realities. Production activities are designed to develop visual and digital literacy and photo compositing software skills with an emphasis on high quality output and presentation for screen and print.

This unit encourages the development of a range of skills including:

• basic digital photography

• image retouching

• colour correction

• use of layers and masks

• scanning reflective and transmissive materials

• technical and creative photo-compositing

• preparing images for screen-based viewing and print

• conceptual and creative photography

• typography and the relationship between text and image

• critical and intellectual analysis

Assessment

Composition, capture and interpret 30%

Montage 30%

Conceptual Strategies 40%

Unit Fee Information

All Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP), fee paying undergraduate and pre-2016 commencing students

Unit fee information available soon

2016 commencing International and full fee paying postgraduate domestic students

Your units are priced based on the course you are enrolled in. Please refer to the current year's course entry to estimate the unit cost.

You can calculate the cost of each unit by using the following calculation: